We wanted to put this concern into perspective for our home turf of Orange County, California.

To do this, we analyzed 28,512 sales of residential properties in Orange County that sold in 2016 and made two maps based on the average prices for each city.

These 28,512 sales included detached and attached properties in the incorporated cities of Orange County.

From this data, we determined that you are going to have to fork over around a half million just to get a decent detached home, or around half of that if you even want to get a place in Orange County at all.

If you didn’t have a heart attack (Or close the page) after hearing that, then check out the two maps below, and we’ll take a closer look.

Average Prices of Detached Homes in Orange County, California:

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Average Prices of Attached Homes in Orange County, California:

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To find the data for these maps, we used the regional MLS, CRMLS. This data was from the past year (2016) in the incorporated cities of Orange County.

That means that if it wasn’t listed on CRMLS in the past year, then it wasn’t included in these maps.